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Fox News - Lady Liberty welcomes your tired, poor and huddled masses. She says nothing of soiled diapers, pizza boxes and Labatt Blue bottles. Yet Michigan lawmakers are concerned Canada is treating their state as its personal waste heap, with dump trucks crossing the border from Ontario to take advantage of Michigan's bargain-rate landfills. In hopes of discouraging the trek, they're introducing legislation in Congress that would charge the Canadians exorbitant fees for bringing their garbage stateside. Canadian truck drivers currently pay just $5 at the border to bring their trash to Michigan, and most of them are not screened, according to Stabenow's office. The proposed law would raise that border fee to $500. The money would go toward inspections by U.S. Border Patrol. Drivers would have to provide U.S. customs officials with the details of their shipments or face a $10,000 fine. Part of the concern is security. A 2006 report from the Department of Homeland Security inspector general showed Canadian trash trucks were found to be carrying in "medical waste, illegal drugs and illegal currency."
Frigen Canada, pretending to be a green, nature loving country for years and years before it became the hipster thing to be. Living off their high falluting reputation as a conscientious country, that is soooo Canada. All bullshit.
Well no more. We will not allow you to sneak all your shit and garbage over our borders and into our pristine dumps any longer. Take one last look at your precious great white north wilderness, and tell your natives to get ready to shed a tear. You want a war of garbage you got it. We're the most wasteful people on earth, this is one arena you did not want to mess with us on.
By the way, this whole mess can be avoided if you agree to just take Michigan from us. Spare us that disaster of an economy and you can dump there all you want.
